Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

Would this be grounds for desertion?

In April of this year my wife decided that she wanted a separation and moved into an apartment. There had been no abuse nor adultery but relations between the two of us had been strained due to lack of intamacy and money woes. I never agreed to the separation but she proceeded and there was never any separation agreement drawn up. Joint debt was left to me to be paid as she abandoned all resposibility from it. Yet she continued to amass debt on joint accounts with no intention to pay. She also took a valuable personal belonging that I had owned priar to our marrage and sold it and helped herself to assests that she didn't contribute to. We have one child together and she assumed custody and threatend to move 300 miles away with her parents if I didn't start paying her $100 a week child support. He had stayed no more than 15 days with her when she said that and the money and property she had taken in the name of child support aready amounted to over $1200. I complied for fear of her moving away with my son. Within a few weeks of paying she gets a new car. I was willing to work things out but after this, No way. What are my options? Would this be considered desertion?

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